"...the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology. ... The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. ... As yet there is only one country which has succeeded in creating this politician’s paradise.” - Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society, 1960.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

History of CIA Torture: Unraveling the Web of Deceit, Part II

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire

Excerpt: "In a sense, it may be said that the CIA was a stepchild of Nazi Germany. As noted by Joseph Trento in Prelude to Terror (2006), its founder, Allen Dulles, had done business with the Nazis before World War II. Dulles served in the O.S.S. in Bern, Switzerland. From 1945 to 1947, preceding the creation of the CIA, Dulles ran his own private and entirely illegal intelligence service in which he 'began a massive ex-Nazi recruitment' campaign, using a State Department refugee office as a front. ... "